Defragmenting Daniel: The Organ Scrubber
by Jason
Werbeloff
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GENRE: Sci-fi
Thriller
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BLURB:
7 stolen organs.
1 vengeful victim.
A gruesome sci-fi thriller.
Organ scrubbing was a
bloody job, but somebody had to do it. Daniel, an orphan from the Gutter, was
put to work scrubbing kidneys at aged twelve. The job had its perks: a warm
bed, Law and Order reruns, and an
all-you-can-eat Mopane worm buffet.
Until the Orphanage
stole Daniel’s parts, and sold them on the organ market.
Now Daniel has grown
up, and yearns to become whole again. The cybernetic organ replacements just
aren’t the same – he needs his parts back. But the new owners of his organs
won’t give them up. Not without a fight.
Just how far will
Daniel go to regain his missing pieces? And how much more of himself will he
lose along the way?
Defragmenting Daniel is a cyberpunk crime thriller that will
unnerve you. Every part of you.
“A work of great
imagination. Powerful and gripping.”
“A stark and moving
experience.”
– ReadersFavorite.com,
5 Star Review
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Excerpt:
“You feel that, son?”
“No siw,” Daniel mouthed. His tongue was numb. Had been numb since
they’d replaced it with the generic a year ago, but it felt more swollen than
usual. Clumsy against his palate.
“That’s good. Try to relax.” The surgeon’s voice was deep and quick.
Like a scythe. “Music, nurse.”
With Daniel’s head turned the way it was, he looked directly into the
surgeon’s crotch. He tried to turn away, but his head had been immobilized.
A beat Daniel remembered from somewhere rolled through the operating
theatre. The bass vibrated along the legs of the steel table, up, into the
brace that pierced his skull, down, through its metallic fingers, and into his
brain. It tickled.
The surgeon shifted. A nurse’s masked face replaced the crotch. “Don’t
move.” Only her eyes showed above the mask. The doctors and nurses all looked
the same with their masks on. How do they tell one another apart?
A grainy woman’s voice hissed through the beat.
We had you cleaned
We had you eat
The high-pitched whine of a bone saw echoed in Daniel’s skull. “We’ll
have you open in no time,” said the surgeon.
Daniel felt pressure against his temple, above his right ear. The whine
of the blade morphed to a lower, choppy grind.
We had you bathed
We had your feet
Yes, he remembered the song now. It was all the rage in the cafeteria on
Friday nights, when they cleared the chairs to make room for an ad hoc dance
floor.
“How the kids?”
“Good, thanks doctor. Jordan’s starting school next week.”
“Already?”
Daniel tried to swallow, but lying on his back with his head fixed at
this angle, most of the saliva dribbled onto the operating table.
We ate your lungs
We heart your beat
The bone saw slowed to a toothy stop.
There was a hollow metal twang, as something red dropped into a metal
bowl on the edge of Daniel’s vision.
“You doing okay there, boy?”
“Yeth, ma’am.”
The surgeon bent down. Peered into Daniel’s eyes.
“We’re in. Won’t be too much longer now.”
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AUTHOR Bio
and Links:
Human. Male. From an obscure planet in the Milky Way Galaxy. Sci-fi
novelist with a PhD in philosophy. Likes chocolates, Labradors, and zombies
(not necessarily in that order). Werbeloff spends his days constructing thought
experiments, while trying to muster enough guilt to go to the gym.
He's written two novels, Hedon and The Solace Pill, and the short story
anthology, Obsidian Worlds. His books will make your brain hurt. And you'll
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The Organ Scrubber is the first fragment of the Defragmenting Daniel
trilogy:
Fragment 1 – The Organ Scrubber
Fragment 2 – The Face in a Jar
Fragment 3 – The Boy Without a Heart
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Thank you for hosting my book on your blog! Readers, what’s your favorite sci-fi novel?
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